Murder of Dinah alias Diana Thomas, Lampeter Velfrey, servant, by striking her with a sword after breaking open her house and then setting it on fire. Recognizance refers to four murders in all; not indicted for the murders of John Thomas and Isaac Harry, both of Lampeter Velfrey, yeomen. See also no. 25 in this file.

Location and date

Parish: Lampeter Velfrey; County: Pembroke; Date: 21 December 1778

Prosecutor

William Thomas, Narberth, gent.

Plea

Not guilty.

Verdict

Guilty.

Punishment

Death, body to be dissected and anatomised [by surgeons]~~~ (Amendments)

Aiding and abetting the murder of Dinah alias Diana Thomas, Lampeter Velfrey, servant. Recognizance refers to four murders in all; not indicted for the murders of John Thomas and Isaac Harry, both of Lampeter Velfrey, yeomen. See also no. 25 in this file.

Murder of John Rees, a private in the Pembrokeshire militia, by shooting him. Deceased and the prisoner had been drinking together. Outside an inn, the prisoner had wanted to shoot at the castle and borrowed the deceased's musket. The second shot penetrated the deceased's breast. The examinants' reports refer to 'great intimacy' between the accused and the deceased; Colonel Colby refers to the accused as 'one of the steadiest and most decent men in my company - remarkable for sobriety'.

Murder. Poisoning Sarag Powell, St Issells, spinster, by mixing pounded glass and ironrust into a quantity of treacle. According to 'Letters of Sir William Jones', ( vol. 2, Oxford, 1970 ), the poisoning was intended to procure an abortion. The deceased was pregnant by the accused, a married man; the body was exhumed from St Issells churchyard~~~. (Amendments)

Assault and resue of distrained livestock in prosecutor's custody. Indicted with his wife.

Location and date

Parish: Lampeter Velfrey; County: Pembroke; Date: 6 April 1781

Prosecutor

William Owen, Lampeter Velfrey, farmer

File number

4/821/5

Document number

11

Accused

John Evan; Parish: Narberth; County: Pembroke; Status: Yeoman

Offence

Assault on prosecutor in the execution of his duty. Accused had been summoned by the prosecutor to be warned that he had no licence to sell effects at a public auction. Accused called prosecutor ' a Black'.